- The Baseus PrimeTrip VD1 PRO has a tiny solar panel that feeds recording while you are parked
- There is also a battery for continuous recording on the road
- Complete with 4k and rear front cameras 1080p
I take care of the cover of the Techradar dashboard cam and I reviewed many of the best dashboard cams in Nextbase and Garmin. Fortunately, there is still room for innovation in this space, because this week, I came across the surprising baseus PrimeTrip VD1 Pro.
The VD1 PRO has a unique tip in its sleeve: a tiny solar panel. Let’s be clear, it is not enough to supply the dashboard cam for a continuous recording on the road – there is an internal battery for this. No, what the solar panel can do is power a parking mode up to two weeks.
Parking methods are a relatively recent thing in dashboard cams. They arouse life to record evidence when the movement and threats around your parked vehicle are detected, such as bumps or burglaries. As a rule, they are powered by the wiring of the battery of your vehicle.
You don’t want to leave a wired dashboard cam in your vehicle parked for too long, but finally it will completely drain the battery. However, the VD1 PRO potentially removes the need to wire hard, providing what its manufacturer says is up to 14 days of power for the parking mode, stored up to 20 recordings through the front and rear cameras.
I cannot believe that a feature like this has not used before, especially given the position that most dashboard cams are found-on a windshield with exposure to daylight.
I personally prefer the simpler plug-And-Play dashboard cameras rather than playing with the mechanical and the hard wiring for the permanent installation, so the points go to the VD1 Pro for this. But how does it behave in other areas?
It’s surprisingly cheap too
BASEUS is better known to make electricity banks and security cameras, it is therefore logical that it can combine these worlds in a dashboard cam with an innovative design of the power supply.
Beyond its solar skills, the VD1 Pro is a double channel dashboard, which means that there are front and rear cameras. The front camera runs a 4K video with a particularly wide 170 -degree vision field (most dashboard cams are 140 degrees), while the rear camera amounts to only 1080p.
The sensor technology is actually slightly basic compared to the best dashboard cameras today, so I have no great hopes of video quality. However, the VD1 PRO is cheaper, costing $ 139.99 at Amazon US at the time of writing the editorial time. I do not yet see the VD1 Pro on Amazon UK, but it appears on other reduction sites at a much lower price – buy at your own risk.
Elsewhere, the Baseus PrimeTrip VD1 PRO is full of features, including voice control, Wi -Fi 6 of 5 GHz for fast file downloads and a companion application for streaming, recording of recordings, visualization of GPS data and the reception of OTA updates – all cars, not remotely, which is a shame.
I have not yet tested the vd1 pro, so I cannot say how well it is in the real world, but it has sufficiently stung my interest to check it.
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